David Kimbrell – a longtime fire chief and emergency management director in North Georgia – was abruptly fired after a video surfaced of him engaged in 'an intimate encounter' with a male employee he hired. READ MORE »

Kennesaw Mayor Derek Easterling is firing back at conservative critics who have blasted him for dressing in drag for his performance at a charity event that raised $250,000 to help Alzheimer's patients. READ MORE »

Rep. Betty Price – the Georgia lawmaker who suggested quarantining people with HIV – refused calls for her to apologize and instead said her 'provocative and rhetorical' comments were misconstrued. READ MORE »

The City of Atlanta continues to be an overachiever when it comes to LGBT equality, again notching a perfect score ­-- actually 104 -- on the HRC’s Municipal Equality Index. Eight other Georgia cities flopped in dramatic fashion. READ MORE »

Transgender Georgians face discrimination when accessing healthcare, are denied care over their gender identity and sometimes don't seek medical care over concerns about being mistreated, according to a new report detailing the problems and offering ways to address them. READ MORE »

Scout Schultz, the 21-year-old president of the Pride Alliance at Georgia Tech, was shot and killed by campus police late Saturday after officers found the student with a closed knife outside a dorm. READ MORE »

When Blake's ran low on ice during a busy Sunday of Black Gay Pride, owner Alan Briggs made a late-night run to restock. When he returned a half-hour later, police had ordered the popular bar to close early and offered shifting explanations about why. READ MORE »

An Atlanta woman harassed and then fired from her job for being a lesbian is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her case that argues federal law bans discrimination based on sexual orientation. READ MORE »

Atlanta police Chief Erika Shields said she is 'disappointed' that police commanders closed two gay bars early during Black Gay Pride and she reassigned the lieutenant who ignored the protests of bar owners and shut down the businesses anyway. READ MORE »

Mary Norwood – a City Council member who is leading the Atlanta mayoral race – said she is 'dismayed' that Atlanta police ordered the closing of two gay bars during Black Gay Pride, but agreed with police that the action wasn't a case of discrimination. READ MORE »

Cathy Woolard – the first openly LGBT person elected to office in Georgia and a candidate for Atlanta mayor – said she's "deeply disturbed" by Atlanta police closing two gay bars during Black Gay Pride and suggested the incident was spurred by discrimination. READ MORE »

Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank has long maintained it's time to make gay athletes 'part of our culture.' So it's no surprise that the Falcons played a big role in Katie Sowers becoming the first out LGBT coach in the NFL. READ MORE »

A gay Kennesaw man, disturbed by the deadly rally white supremacists held in Charlottesville, launched an effort calling for the removal of a Confederate flag from a city park in the Atlanta suburb. READ MORE »